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Culture Workshop of Chu-nan Snake Kiln

The Zhu-Nan Snake Kiln was founded in 1972 and was originally called Heng Fa Ceramics. That year, Mr. Lin Tien-Fu, along with nine craftsmen and an ox under his command, built a 23-meter snake kiln (today the kiln is only 20 meters long) in nine days using homemade adobe bricks. Among the small number of surviving snake kilns presently remaining in Taiwan, the Zhu-Nan Snake Kiln is not only the best preserved, but also is still being used to make pottery. Though rooted in Taiwan's traditional kiln industry, the Zhu-Nan Snake Kiln has transformed into a producer of folk-craft pottery. Currently, the kiln is more actively involved in the creation of wood-fired pottery. The kiln's founder, Mr. Lin Tien-Fu, is from Tai-Chung County's Da-Jia-Dong, a little country town, which has been well-known its pottery since the early days. In addition to keeping alive traditional pottery craftsmanship brought to Taiwan from China's Fujian province, Mr. Lin Tien-Fu also continuously works at creating new forms of expression in his work. Mr. Lin has forged his own unique path somewhere in the gulf between traditional pottery craft and modern art. In recent years, he has dedicated himself to the popularization of Taiwan's traditional kiln culture in order to prevent this precious cultural commodity from being lost.

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Culture Workshop of Chu-nan Snake Kiln

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